Umaru Dikko
His family in London and Zaria in Kaduna State confirmed news of his passing to SaharaReporters.
Mr. Dikko had been ill for several months. Even so, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) burdened him with chairing the party’s disciplinary committee set up last year by its now ousted chairman, Bamanga Tukur.
One of his close associates told SaharaReporters this morning that Mr. Dikko accepted the job despite his failing health.
Mr. Dikko was one of the most powerful ministers under the administration of President Shehu Shagari in the early 1980s. When the military ousted the regime in a coup d’etat in 1983, Mr. Dikko escaped to the UK on exile. The military regime led by then head of state, Muhammadu Buhari, accused Dikko of massive corruption and official graft and hatched a plot to kidnap him from the streets of London.
In 1984, Mr. Dikko was kidnapped, drugged and put in a diplomatic package to be smuggled back to Nigeria in an unconscious state. UK police later arrested his abductors as they tried to ship him through Stansed Airport in London.
Mr. Dikko later returned to Nigeria and became active again in politics he was a card carrying member of the PDP until his death. He was aged 78.
Umaru Dikko dies in UK
Nigeria’s Second Republic Minister of Transport, Alhaji Umaru Dikko has died this morning in the United Kingdom.
Umaru
Dikko, born in 1936 at Wamba was a trusted adviser to President Shehu
Shagari. He was also the Nigerian minister for Transportation from
1979-1983.
Alhaji Dikko went on exile after the overthrow of the Shehu Shagari’s government by the military coup of December 31, 1983.
The move by the Muhammadu Buhari/ Tunde Idiagbon regime to abduct Alhaji Dikko to Nigeria from the United Kingdom to answer corruption charges levelled against him failed as it was foiled by Scotland Yard. He was drugged and was to be shipped into the country as a diplomatic package.
Umaru Dikko later returned to country in the mid-1990s and has since participated in politics. He was the chairman of the seven-member National Disciplinary Committee, NDC, of the Peoples Democratic Party during the chairmanship of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.
*Umaru Dikko
Alhaji Dikko went on exile after the overthrow of the Shehu Shagari’s government by the military coup of December 31, 1983.
The move by the Muhammadu Buhari/ Tunde Idiagbon regime to abduct Alhaji Dikko to Nigeria from the United Kingdom to answer corruption charges levelled against him failed as it was foiled by Scotland Yard. He was drugged and was to be shipped into the country as a diplomatic package.
Umaru Dikko later returned to country in the mid-1990s and has since participated in politics. He was the chairman of the seven-member National Disciplinary Committee, NDC, of the Peoples Democratic Party during the chairmanship of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.
Umaru
Dikko, born in 1936 at Wamba was a trusted adviser to President Shehu
Shagari. He was also the Nigerian minister for Transportation from
1979-1983.
Alhaji Dikko went on exile after the overthrow of the Shehu Shagari’s government by the military coup of December 31, 1983.
The move by the Muhammadu Buhari/ Tunde Idiagbon regime to abduct Alhaji Dikko to Nigeria from the United Kingdom to answer corruption charges levelled against him failed as it was foiled by Scotland Yard. He was drugged and was to be shipped into the country as a diplomatic package.
Umaru Dikko later returned to country in the mid-1990s and has since participated in politics. He was the chairman of the seven-member National Disciplinary Committee, NDC, of the Peoples Democratic Party during the chairmanship of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.
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Alhaji Dikko went on exile after the overthrow of the Shehu Shagari’s government by the military coup of December 31, 1983.
The move by the Muhammadu Buhari/ Tunde Idiagbon regime to abduct Alhaji Dikko to Nigeria from the United Kingdom to answer corruption charges levelled against him failed as it was foiled by Scotland Yard. He was drugged and was to be shipped into the country as a diplomatic package.
Umaru Dikko later returned to country in the mid-1990s and has since participated in politics. He was the chairman of the seven-member National Disciplinary Committee, NDC, of the Peoples Democratic Party during the chairmanship of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/umaru-dikko-dies-in-uk/#sthash.EFOmiojE.dpuf
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